During workshops the artist with participants sewed some phrases of “La Grammatica della Fantasia” by Gianni Rodari on fabrics. In the second part Sara created a video with personal tales of the particpants. During the last day of the Festival, the artist realized the last part of her work: a walk with the participants to hang up the embroideries, at the end of which performed the chorus of voices Brancoro.
Embroidered Fabrics
Sara Basta is an Italian artist interested in images and their constant capacity for change. She favours co-creation by carrying out workshops that transform into places for coming together, research and, above all, exchange. The development of Moto perpetuo combinatorio, with Latitudo Art Projects, started with the analysis and reinterpretation of the Italian writer Gianni Rodari. The idea of a language as a combinatorial machine has inspired many writers, and it somehow seems that Basta wanted to draw on this literary heritage to create her own combinatorial machine, designed to give life to new currents and new relationships. She carried out several workshops with the women’s community of the Trullo neighbourhood, with whom she embroidered the words Rodari used onto these fabrics. On this occasion, these embroidered fabrics remind us of the array of colours and the polyphony of voices that brought the Italian neighbourhood streets to life, demonstrating how the voices of individuals, though dissonant and diverse, can compose a harmonic symphony.
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